Improvement in sockets for attaching ornamental heads to nails



T. C. RICHARDS.

Socket for Attaching Ornamental Heads to -Nails..

-No.l66,l45.

Patent ed m 27,1s75-.

NJPETERS, PHGm-UTNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS C. RICHARDS, OF WEST WINSTED, OONNEGTIGUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOCKETS FOR ATTACHlNG ORNAMENTAL HEADS T0 NAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,145, dated July 27,1875; application filed A December 30, 1874.

To allwhom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS C. RICHARDS, ofWest Winsted, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, haveinvented cer' tain Improvements in Attaching Ornamental Heads to Nails,Screws, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the mode of attaching heads to nails, which isthe subject of Letters Patent No. 72,905, granted to me December 31,1867, (reissued May 19, 1868, No. 2,936,) and it consists in certainmeans whereby the construction is simplified and greater security isobtained.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a sectional view of myinvention applied to a nail. Fig. 2 is a similar. view at right anglesto Fig. 1. Fig. 3. is a view of the under side of the head or diskwithout the nail. Fig. 4 is a similar View with the nail in section.

A represents the socket which holds the ornamental head. On the under orrear side of the socket or disk A are three lips or lugs, a a a formedby cutting slits in the metal and turning up the same at acute angles.scribed in my former patent, but the lip (1 instead of being revertedtoward the center of the disk at an obtuse angle to that part of thedisk from which it has been out, is cut the reverse way and simplyraised up at an acute angle.

The inner edges of the lips a a have depressions b formed in them bycutting a curved piece from each lip, corresponding in form with thebody and headof the nail or screw.

When the socket or disk A is applied to The lips a a are like those dethe nail or screw, the head proper of said nail or screw slips under thelips, snapping into place in the depressions b, and passing under thelip a and the ornamental head is thus held securely in place andprevented from falling off or being displaced by any ordinary pressure.

By cutting the lip a with its end pointing toward the center and simplyraising it at an acute angle, the cutting and shaping of it may beperformed at the same operation which forms the other two lips, and bymeans of the depressions b the adherence of the ornamental head to thehead proper is rendered more certain than when made in the form shown inmy patent aforesaid.

By my invention ornamental heads may be applied to nails, screws,picture-hooks, tassel-hooks, curtain-fixtures, and articles of a similarcharacter in a simpleand economical manner, and without danger ofaccidental displacement.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described socket for receiving the ornamental head and forattachment to the nail, struck up from. a single sheet of metal, andhaving the lips a c c all pointing to the common center at an acuteangle from the part of the sheet from which they are cut.

2. The depressions b in the lips 01- a, sub-- stantially as and for thepurpose described.

'1. O. RICHARDS. Witnesses:

BENJ. W. HOFFMAN, MICHAEL RYAN.

